March for our Lives. Turn on your TV now

If you’re not watching turn it on now. March for our Lives. Today. Right now.
The greatest march since the 1963 March on Washington. Children. Teen agers.
An eleven year old at the podium. What speakers they are. Have a good cry.
“I just spoke on international television and it feels great!” There are no divisions here. No identity politics. No races. No sexes. Only children. Only children that have watched their friends, their brothers die and sisters die, murdered at their side. Its on MSNBC. It’s streaming and its in every
every large city in America.
When you watch these kids, hugging, crying, laughing chanting, as you understand that there is a special language among them, a great spiritual strength, a sense of victory, a victory born of the blood of their comrades, you get the first glimpse I’ve ever seen of exactly what it was like fifty five years ago in the deep south, when a generation of children rose and overthrew Jim Crow.

This generation born in war, born in the jail cells of the South, born at the Pentagon march, watches in disbelief as the country is paved over, malls replacing corn fields, synthetic food replacing corn, cash replacing value. What has become of us? Is the country brain dead? Is this what we have done with our freedom? Our greatest surviving value is greed. Is that what our legacy will be? What shall we tell the children?

The 16mm Films of Danny Lyon, preserved as high resolution scans

After his ground breaking work as a photojournalist in the 1960’s, Danny Lyon turned to films, making a series of non-fiction films in the 1970’s and 1980’s. With the recent recognition of the 2016 de Young/Whitney retrospective, funds were provided to preserve these remarkable 16mm films. High resolution digital scans were made from the original A&B negative rolls under the close supervision of the artist. The DVD covers themselves, first made for VHS tapes, have been recognized for their power and realism, and are on display at the San Francisco Museum of Art show which opened November 3rd, 2016.

These are great digital copies of some of the best non-fiction films of the seventies and eighties, exclusively available from Bleak Beauty.

The entire body of Danny Lyon 16mm film work can also be streamed on Vimeo. The sixties meets the twenty first century.View Bleak Beauty Films